Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous